GRE Word List
ROUSING
giving rise to excitement : stirring
The meaning of the word rousing is giving rise to excitement : stirring.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| fanfare | a short and lively sounding of trumpets |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |